Heess
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymischer Familienname: zu Flurnamen Hees, wohl 'junger Baum, meist Buche oder Eiche' oder 'Buschwald'
Heess is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 545K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1M
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.4M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Heess itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 545K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 named Heeß, est.
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Heeß in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymischer Familienname: zu Flurnamen Hees, wohl 'junger Baum, meist Buche oder Eiche' oder 'Buschwald'. Bearer count: 46.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heess counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Heeß | 34 |
| US United States | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | listed | Heess | 56 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Heess | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | — | Heess | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Heess | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Heess | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Heess | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Heess mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymischer Familienname: zu Flurnamen Hees, wohl 'junger Baum, meist Buche oder Eiche' oder 'Buschwald'.
- In which country does Heess have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 208 people named Heeß in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Heess?
- Mondonomo estimates about 210 people in Germany have Heeß as their first surname, about 1 in 385 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heessThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Heess”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.